Learn about the Campanula

(Großlangenfeld)​In Helmut Blefferts workshop in Großlangenfeld give themselves prominent music professionals and enthusiastic amateurs the jack in hand. In addition to instruments for sound therapy, Bleffert designs and builds highly acclaimed cellos, violas and violins - and the Campanula, which draws more and more musicians under its spell.

​The professional and amateur build in two weeks their Campanula under the supervision of Helmut Bleffert even - "until Saturday, then they are ready for use," hopes Rudi Platte. On the way to the upper floor of the former farmhouse - past dozens of cellos, Violins and violins, elixirs, and copies of the Celtic Chrotta, - the instrument of Remff, reminiscent of a cello, would not be placed above the body, and on a tapered head plate additional strings. "Campanula is the Latin name for the key flower," explains the instrument maker. "Its shape is the result of a contract to develop an instrument for a plant image."

In the moment in which Bleffert alludes his invention, can be heard, what so many musicians fascinated: During the four playing strings, which are as voted in a cello , The 16 resonance strings, which lie above the body top, resonate. The overtones that spread from the Campanula over the entire room produce a beautiful sound, and a natural reverberation, until the strings vibrate. Bleffert, who has been producing instruments for musical therapy since the early 1970s, is creating a deep inner peace in playing the Campanula. "Professionals learn to play freely, which they often do not have access to in their careers, but for me the magic of a musical performance begins only where the human being is shown."displayGeorg Faust, a professor and the first cellist of the Berliner Philharmoniker from 1985 to 2012, sits at the Großlangenfelder kitchen table and explains why the Campanula enchants him: "I've been a soloist, chamber musician and teacher on the cello." But it was necessary to discover new worlds of sound, in which there is as yet no models and no extensive repertoire.

"I know Helmut for around 30 years," says Georg Faust. Even then, he had borrowed a Campanula and tried it, but "I was too busy with the cello, a high-performance musician who had no time to devote himself to another instrument."Time for new discovery

Now the time was ripe to rediscover the Campanula, says Faust. And he wants to do more, because in the meantime a supporter club has been established, which grants scholarships and organizes concerts. "I would like to use my name to bring young music students to the campanula," says Georg Faust. "Because the instrument is incredibly inspiring."extraHelmut Bleffert (born 1951, born in Altenahr) has the first campanulas designed 30 years ago, now are about 100 copies "spread across the planet." The sound and the quality of the cellos, violins and violas that arise in his workshop are awarded. In 1973, Helmut Bleffert to the study of painting at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, recently was Bleffert in the small Eifel village Winterscheid drawn, where also the first instrument was created, a replica of an Indian Sarangi. By chance came Bleffert 1978 production of Celtic Chrotten for music therapy , since 1980 he builds classical string instruments. In Großlangenfeld the painter and instrument makers working for about five years. A growing number of respected musicians and composers the Campanula, two years ago there was a first, highly acclaimed Festival in Schifferstadt. Samples of the instrument can be found at youtube. now